Usually means: Remained or existed in past.
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  1. lay behind: Merriam-Webster
  2. lay behind: Wiktionary
  3. lay behind: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lay behind: Legal dictionary

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  1. lay behind: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (lay behind)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lay, behind.
verb:  Nonstandard form of lie behind. [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lie, behind.]

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