The sentence "We received a report" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a report, document, or other piece of written information that you have just recently obtained. For example, "We received a report yesterday that indicates a sharp increase in sales over the past quarter."
"We received a report yesterday that the visitor believes the bite was from a spider.
"Well, we received a report that you had explosives and had fled on September 12".
"I can confirm that at 10.30am this morning we received a report of hate crime following comments aired on the Victoria Derbyshire programme," he said.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: "We can confirm that we received a report at approximately 10.30pm [on Thursday] that a man had escaped from Campsfield detention centre.
They said we received a report that a member of the athletic department staff, after a workout in one of our athletic facilities, saw Jerry Sandusky in the locker room with one of his kids, meaning one of his Second Mile kids.
"We received a report from the Metropolitan Police that a woman had been assaulted on 7 June at a private address," a Thames Valley Police spokesman said: "An investigation was carried out and in the absence of necessary evidence we were unable to proceed further".
Whenever we receive a report of a death, we will not simply accept it as a natural death.
"I'll wait until we receive a report from the military and from Secretary Cohen," he said in an interview.
We will continue taking enforcement action when we receive a report from someone directly involved in the conversation.
"Our focus is increasingly on proactively identifying problematic accounts and behavior rather than waiting until we receive a report," Twitter's Yoel Roth and Del Harvey write in the latest blog update.
To help infer whether or not a conversation is consensual, we currently rely on and take enforcement action only if/when we receive a report from a participant in the conversation.
