Complex sentence: Colin rebels by refusing a job offered to him at his father's factory and watches with disdain as his mother spends the five hundred pounds in insurance money the company pays her on clothes, a television and new furniture.
Split into simpler sentences: Colin rebels by refusing a job offered to him at his father's factory. His father's company has paid £500 in insurance money, and he watches with disdain as his mother spends it on clothes, a television and new furniture.