Complex sentence: She looks into some of the shop windows, pausing briefly to wistfully look at a somewhat tattered evening dress on a manikin, then spies what was a restaurant across the street and enters in search of food.
Split into simpler sentences: She looks into some of the shop windows, pausing briefly to wistfully look at a somewhat tattered evening dress on a manikin. She then spies what was a restaurant across the street and enters in search of food.