What have you been--a dressmaker, stitching fashionable silks for beauty, and at the same time a plain shroud for yourself?
What have you been--a governess, rearing young lives at the sacrifice of your own?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what have you been" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.