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The phrase "were being told" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a past continuous verb form used to indicate that an action was in progress at a particular moment in the past. For example, "We were being told a story when the lights went out."
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You were being told to pay attention.
This, we were being told, was how she started.
Soon, sympathetic MPs and journalists were being told lies.
They were being told a lot of information.
Things had happened before the tale we were being told.
The consumers were being told: You will never pay full price again.
The West Independent School District said on Twitter that residents were being told to leave.
Politicians were being told firmly that some kind of coalition government was inevitable.
The Vietnamese, with reason, also did not believe what they were being told.
"We were being told that music is something you do in the meantime.
We were being told that the march wasn't cancelled to save on paperwork".
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