The phrase "as if told" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is being done or expressed in a manner that mimics or reflects what has been previously communicated or instructed.
Example: "He followed the instructions as if told to do so by an authority figure."
Alternatives: "as if instructed" or "as if directed".
Alan Johnson, the opposition's finance spokesman, said many people felt let down by the government as if told to "get a shovel or stay at home".
A number of true cult texts, however, follow the rite step by step as if told by a close observer, and many laments were probably performed in the actual rites.
$23. THERE'S a special style that goes with the fairy story -- a style with great and self-contained energy, as if told by a cold child, in which horror is recorded alongside wonders.
The originality was to be shown... in what we may call the psychological description the murderer gives us of his temptations, temperament and character as if told by another".
But Biden shared the vignettes from his childhood that have long been a staple of his stump speeches with the same vigor as if told for the first time.
The rest of the movie (except for a brief ending) is a flashback from this moment, as if told by the dead character whose voice-over is nonetheless almost absent from the rest of the film.
You can say it, but then tell us (relatives), as, if you tell him, he'll give up (wife of Turkish male patient).
He sang them both with a forthright intimacy, as if telling a cherished bedtime story.
Mr. Tetzlaff laid out the rigorous short phrases as if telling a story, one strand leading to another.
He admitted — as if telling himself in confidence, as much as her — that this instrument roused in him skilled responses that he hadn't known he had.
As the goddess embraces her beloved, one cherub holds a finger to his lips, as if telling the other: "Do not disturb".
