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The phrase "having been told" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something was informed to someone before. For example, "Having been told the news, she was overwhelmed with emotion."
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"I feel better for having been onstage, having been told I never could.
Scott remembers once having been told that the bridge never stops being painted.
Having been told that medical students were prone to hypochondriasis, we generally responded with eye-rolling.
To Manne, having been told initially that the man is unstable, this simply affirms the view.
And having been told by him that it was going to happen, I knew it would".
Poor Mr. Andrade seems to be rehearsing, not having been told that the camera is rolling.
Strawberry, having been told that his friends were searching for him, finally called from Daytona Beach.
People having been told they had more patrolling officers complained they never saw them.
Finally, he was fired in 2010, having been told that he was "too much hassle".
I felt a second shock then, a stinging feeling of having been told too much.
Today's Baltics depend entirely on NATO for air defence, having been told not to buy expensive jets themselves.
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