We were just small cogs in a big machine.

I wanted to get out of the spotlight and to be a smaller cog in a larger wheel.

We are small cogs in a large machine, both of us.

He didn't say more than that, but rang off, leaving her feeling she was a very small cog in the wheels of his working day.

I am only a small cog in a great bureaucratic machine.

I was really a very small cog in the espionage wheel.

The feeling of being reduced to a small cog in a machine.

Once she had been a small cog in The Network.

He was a small cog in some kind of a big operation.

That is, you are one small cog in a much larger machine.